Me when I have to interact with a website slowly because my natural rate is too fast and it triggers a bot detection warning
in the case of github you hit the rate limit after 1 query
Happened to my daughter: She's studying abroad, with an English speaking course of mostly non-native speakers (she is also no native English speaker, but has a better command of the language than most Americans). Co-students were actually asking her which AI she was using because her papers were so good...
I spent so much time in academia. A lot of us are trained to make objective and impersonal analysis (such as avoiding the use of personal pronouns "I", "we", "us" etc.), which I did not realise before sounds dispassionate and cold to laymen. Someone asked me if I'm a bot because apparently I sounded like an anime character. A couple of times, I get into arguments because normal folks would accuse me of "yOu aRe mAkInG ExCuSeS tO TyRaNtS!!" for making a realpolitik analysis of a situation (/r/geopolitics in Reddit is heavily derided for this by average Redditors).
Academically trained folks are ingrained to be conscious of bias and rather encouraged to be more descriptive with the analysis, and less with prescriptive. Otherwise we'd get accused of bias. But when academics do voice out their opinions based on evidence and careful study, they'd be accused of bias. I probably don't need to elaborate how often educational institutions are accused of being left or liberal. News flash: academics do not come in with inherent bias towards left/liberal thinking, it's just that their study led them to be more left leaning. Wait until I tell people I am an advocate for a world government by giving UN more power. I might be accused as a globalist bot.
Maybe learn to switch out of the academic style for social media? Like do you include citation footers in texts to your family?
If by social media you mean the brain rotting, ragebaiting sites like Facebook, X or Instagram, I don't argue on them.
Reddit, Lemmy, etc. are all social media. Is it hard to switch back and forth?
Shh....some will be offended when you call reddit and lemmy social media!
i dislike, but accept, academic style. my argument against it is that the total reliance on passive voice makes research FAR less accessible to people for whom english is a second languange and neurodivergent people. older academics tell me i'm being anti-intellectual. younger academics tell me they don't know what passive voice is and don't believe it exists.
i don't really… know what to make of that divide, if i'm being honest
That's why you usually have a paper and then a popular media article written based on it that's what people actually see and read.
my argument against it is that the total reliance on passive voice makes research FAR less accessible to people for whom english is a second languange and neurodivergent people. older academics tell me i'm being anti-intellectual.
That's fair and completely understandable. One of the major reasons for anti-intellectualism are experts talking down on average people. A lot of experts and academics are typically affluent who hardly have to live with salt-of-the-earth, everyday workers and working class. It's a well-known problem who in academia who scoff at student and laypeople. I am not an academic by profession, although I try to know the audience and talk to their level. But I admit that maybe I have come across as smug before without realising it.
younger academics tell me they don't know what passive voice is and don't believe it exists.
I guess the person just have to read academic literatures in their field to get the grasp on how to speak passively. It took awhile for me to master it.
usually the younger cohort defaults to passive voice in all communication.
also i didn't think you came across as a problem at all! sorry if it seemed like i was criticizing you or your position. this is a very general frustration i've had with academia ever since i wrote my senior ethics paper
Hear me out: intentional spellign mistakes.
International*
International House of Fucked Spellings
never. capitalize. anything. unless it's a proper noun then do so out of respect. unless you don't respect the thing and don't want your audience to either. then fuck em
who do you think i am? a capitalist?
Ellipsis...use ellipsis often. AI seldom, if ever, uses them...So your responses don't have the look and feel of AI.
The last few boomers I work with all message me like that, it's kinda upsetting
I don't know why, but when I see someone overusing ellipses, they immediately seem like an at least 50 year old man who most likely doesn't have a great relationship with their kids to me. This has turned out to be true almost every time.
oh for me it's usually stoners
Probably this one...
What an astute observation! You are absolutely right, many people can confuse well written responses as AI and that can be frustrating. Simplifying the language is a great way to make your text seem more personal and human. Let me know if you need help with anything else!
also me when people accuse me of being ai slop for using em dashes just because big tech trained their models by stealing authors work.
That's why I fill my points with insults and constant profanities. Can't fucken accuse my borderline insane and blatantly violent rhetoric of being bots because im pretty sure my pros are bit shit. Also could a bot do this, you can now feel that post burn sensation on your tongue.
All posts need to have the same title: me_irl it is allowed to use an emoji instead of the underscore _
